Example sentences of "high [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avalanches in the French Alps cut off ski resorts on Feb. 14-15 ; on Feb. 26-28 storms broke sea defences in Towyn , north Wales , and in Lemwig , Denmark ; high tide levels in the Netherlands were the highest for 37 years ; and the Thames barrier was raised to prevent flooding in London . |
| 2 | Still , they were making an effort , putting on cheap food and jazz bands and so far the locals from the high rise flats across the road seemed to be accepting them . |
| 3 | Positioning was governed by the 915mm high kitchen worktop on the other side . |
| 4 | One of the reasons why Colnaghi 's wanted a presence in Paris and welcomed the opportunity to be at the Hotel Bristol is the attraction which Paris holds to the Japanese ; furthermore , a high occupancy rate at the Hotel Bristol is Japanese and I look forward to being able to meet this clientele . |
| 5 | The 300 foot high gum trees on the south west of the island are among the last such reserves in the world ; many are 200-300 years old . |
| 6 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 7 | It was also accused of being a regressive tax , in that the fixed charge per head tended to affect low income earners more than high income earners despite the existence of rebates for poor families . |
| 8 | It 's sadly typical of the unreality of the British debate on foreign policy that Labour frontbenchers are declaring their continued commitment to high defence spending as the Vienna negotiations move towards major cuts , while Conservative ministers still use the language of an Atlantic world . |
| 9 | Built of stone and of conical shape , it was used to make steel by heating wrought iron with charcoal in sealed fireclay pots , so that the high carbon content of the charcoal was absorbed by the molten metal and became steel . |
| 10 | The high repeat frequency of the chromosome III and close resemblance between its telomeric sequences ( effectively closing it into a circle ) , plus the higher number of clones hybridising to probes mapped to other two chromosomes , demonstrate the possible problems with all types of algorithm with more complex genomes . |
| 11 | The main causes of the decline are perhaps connected with contemporary and major changes in agricultural practice , but climatic factors have also contributed , with a series of cool damp summers , particularly in the 1950s , contributing to a high chick mortality on the coastal plain , for example . |
| 12 | He put her on to Mortgage Business , a company which offers high equity loans for the self-employed . |
| 13 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a teenager has appeared in court after yesterday 's high speed chase through the centre of Oxford that left this stolen Metro wrecked , along with 3 police cars . |
| 15 | But some crucial decisions , including the siting of the high speed link from the Channel Tunnel , will have to be taken before he takes over . |
| 16 | The high speed turn at the bottom of the wave which brings you back up the same wave enabling you to continue your ride in . |
| 17 | The BTA 's July 1989 report on tourism and the Channel Tunnel identifies a number of issues needing attention including the provision of on-train Customs and immigration checks , the improvement of road links between the regions and the Tunnel , and the development of high speed services to the regions from the London terminals to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 18 | Watching these high speed ants on the Bombay verandah , I was impressed by the fact that ants travelling in different directions upon their highway stopped dead upon meeting , touched each other and then continued upon their way . |
| 19 | Superpowered craft capable of surging across the water at 120mph will take part in a high speed challenge for the class two championship of Europe over the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 20 | Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph . |
| 21 | A local authority delegation recently urged public transport minister Roger Freeman to initiate a full feasibility study into creating a high speed line alongside the West Coast line as part of the European network . |
| 22 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 23 | It reduces the blood supply to your baby , and in severe cases causes sickness , headache , blurred eyesight and high blood pressure in the mother . |
| 24 | Hardly a high protein diet in the terms we have come to relate to . |
| 25 | O'Connell attests that this is a much more elegant way of offering bespoke software , formerly a high revenue earner for the company . |
| 26 | Circlip detachment could have been consistent with a high tension condition in the belt that , by resulting in elastic bending of the pin , caused a loading to be applied by the backplate flange to the circlip in the axial direction of the pin . |
| 27 | All but five were in the summer with occasional problems in balancing the high labour requirements of the farm at that time with those of the new farm enterprise . |
| 28 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 29 | The former brings subsoil with a high aluminium content to the surface and this , in tandem with soil compaction and inadequate fertiliser use , has often resulted in poor harvests . |
| 30 | High magnification view of the basal epidermal layer of another sample of 12-h wound margin . |